It has to be said that Gu Yalang's military insights and ideas are indeed much better than Su Changan.

He quickly proposed many strategies with Su Chang'an, such as building city walls, strengthening defense, and making more battle flags, inserting all over the city walls to lay out suspicious formations. He even changed the previous patrol mode and divided the generals into two shifts day and night to prevent the barbarians from attacking at night.

Su Chang'an naturally followed the good deeds towards these things.

Five days passed in a flash. The news from the border was estimated to be that the barbarian army would arrive in the next two days, and a great war would inevitably occur.

The atmosphere in Xitou Fort was getting more and more dull. When the enemy was in front of him, the gap between the seven hundred regular troops brought by Yuan Dongkun gradually emerged.

Although some morally devastating rumors could be heard from time to time among these 700 soldiers, there was no trouble. On the other hand, in the camp, there have been repeated escapes in recent times. It was not until Su Chang'an killed several deserters that this limelight gradually subsided.

However, such a powerful suppression is not a long-term solution. It is even possible that the army will mutiny and flee in the war.

Thinking of these, Su Chang'an frowned and stood on the top of the city. Looking at the north of the night, there was a mountain called Langya. In the near future, the barbarian army would take their iron cavalry out from there and stab into the hinterland of Xiliang like a sharp sword. And they were the shield that resisted this sharp sword, a weak or even rotten shield.

"What's wrong?" Qingluan came behind him at some point and asked softly.

Su Changan turned around and looked at Qingluan. At some point, Qingluan had already broken through again and achieved the Fanchen realm. Such cultivation speed was really terrifying.

"Nothing." Su Changan smiled. He didn't want Qingluan to worry about him.

But how could he hide his personality of his likes and dislikes on his face than Qingluan's eyes? She stretched out her hand and gently placed it on Su Chang'an's palm.

"Don't worry, I'll be with you." She said.

She always says this, or because she is not good at speaking, what she knows and thinks about him in the end can only turn into a sentence like this, "I will be with you."

Such a plausible love word is touched by others. However, after hearing it too much, it is inevitable that you will feel bored.

But Su Changan could hear a different smell every time.

In the eyes of others, Qingluan is always cold and even a little unkind. But Su Changan knew that Qingluan was very gentle, even more gentle than most people. But she didn't say that she was just doing something silently, touching Su Changan silently.

"Yeah." Su Changan nodded. He knew that he could not hide it from Qingluan, so he stopped hiding it. He asked, "Do you understand the barbarians? What kind of people are they?" Su Changan hesitated when he said this. He had never seen barbarians, so he didn't know what they looked like, and he didn't know whether it was appropriate to use the word "man" to describe them.

Qingluan thought a little while when she heard this, then used her gentle voice to Su Changan to slowly say: "I don't know much about the barbarians. Although Xingchen Pavilion has a lot of information about him, because most of the people I'm responsible for are the star deaths of the demons and humans, I didn't pay much attention."

"As far as I know, the appearance of the barbarians is almost the same as that of humans, but they are even stronger. The lifespan of ordinary people is no different from that of humans, and it is not as long as the demon race." Qingluan paused and seemed to realize something, but she saw that Su Changan was just listening to what she said seriously, so she let go of the sudden thoughts in her heart and continued.

"The barbarians do not cultivate spiritual power. Although the realm division is no different from that of the human race, the cultivation methods are actually very different."

"They strengthen their physical bodies by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. When the star dies, they can not only chase stars and take the moon with their physical strength, but also communicate with the ancestor stars and summon the true body of the ancestors."

"Zu Xing?" Su Changan was stunned. This was something he had never heard of.

"The ancestor star is also a star, but it is not very similar to ordinary stars, yes," Qingluan said, frowning here, as if thinking about how to explain this issue to Su Chang'an. "It is actually very similar to the seven stars in Tianlanyuan, but it is also different. Every person from their clan can light up without any inherited star spirit, and can only light up this star. After death, he can also return to the star sea."

"One clan lights up a star?" Su Changan felt a little strange, "Wouldn't that mean that at most one star can only appear in each clan of the barbarian race? But why did I hear Guan Canghai say that the nine major clans of the barbarian race have twelve stars?"

When Qingluan heard this, she shook her head again and said, "The most special thing about the Barbarian ancestor star is that a star can be lit by several people at the same time. And the more people don't light it up, the stronger the power the star has. For example, the royal family of the Barbarians, the Dijiang clan has four stars to die, so their Barbarian King is no less than the Holy Emperor. It is said that Tianshu Tianquan of Tianlan Court in the past died at his hands."

Su Changan's expression changed. He had never seen Tianshu and Tianquan before, but they were his uncles after all, so they were naturally unclear in his heart. When he heard that they were killed by the barbarian emperor, he could not help but feel a little fluctuating.

"So the barbarians are very strong. Then why haven't they attacked Xiliang for so many years? With the number of their star deaths, the Great Wei was no longer an opponent a few years ago." Su Changan asked.

"Although the Barbarian King killed Tianshu and Tianquan, he was defeated by Yuheng who came. Then the barbarians fell into civil strife again. Several major clans competed for power. It was also the Jiuying clan that suddenly rose this year that suddenly stood firmly on the side of the Barbarian King. The civil strife gradually calmed down and began to attack the human race." Qingluan explained.

(os: The third update today, I made up for what I owe yesterday)

Su Changan nodded and asked something again. Suddenly, a beacon fire lit up in the southwest direction. In the dark night, the beacon fire burned wildly, and the wolf smoke rolled straight into the sky.

Su Changan's pupils suddenly widened, and that was the direction of Laiyun City!

According to the previous plan, they were to use bait to lead the barbarians to attack, then lit up the beacon fire, and Laiyun City led troops to support, and then cooperated inside and outside, attacking front and back.

But now that the barbarians have not arrived, why has Laiyun City lighted up the beacon?

Could it be that the barbarians did not take the land first and then fight as they had imagined at the beginning. Instead, they dragged their tired troops directly to Lai Yun. Although Su Chang'an did not understand military affairs, he also felt something was wrong. Now the barbarian soldiers were in a hurry to defend Yongning Pass, and they dared not fight, and they dared not divide their troops to support. Under such a situation, the barbarians did not need to be so eager to advance.

But since things have come to this point, Su Changan naturally cannot sit idly by.

He glanced at Qingluan and said, "Go and inform Hu Zi and Yuan Dongkun, summon the soldiers and prepare to go out of the army!" Then, he turned to a soldier beside him and ordered: "Go and call Gu Yalang to see me!"
Chapter completed!